Antivirus for Fedora 14

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri May 20 16:02:01 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:07:19 +0930,
  Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On Linux, if you were to try and install a file that wanted to replace
> some system file, or some file belonging to another package that may be
> just as important, can you *expect* the install process to remove the
> original owner package?  Or is it possible to stuff up some file
> belonging to another package, silently?

If you try this you would normally get a file conflict. There are some
corner cases with config files where you might not get a conflict.


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